Area businesses are rallying around Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth & Families to help increase awareness of the home’s ministry to abused, abandoned and neglected children. On Thursday, June 18, businesses in Black Mountain, Asheville, Brevard, Hendersonville, Marion and Mills River will contribute a portion of the day’s proceeds to the Home’s Every Day Fund. You can help give children at the home hope and a future by dining and shopping at participating businesses.

Ten Thousand Villages also participated in the fundraiser during a special event at Montreat Conference Center in April. “We appreciate the work Black Mountain Home does with families, children and youth all through the year,” manager Ellen McClintock said.

Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth & Families has been caring for abandoned, abused, neglected and orphaned children in Western North Carolina for more than a century. Begun by Presbyterian minister Robert Perry Smith in 1904 as Mountain Orphanage, the home began its ministry taking in Appalachian children whose parents had died or disappeared.

Today, the ministry serves youth from birth through college graduation through family foster care, residential care, transitional living and independent living. Learn more at BlackMountainHome.org or 686-3451.

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